Vaccine Ramp-Up Squeezes Covid Testing and Tracing
The ability of California health officials to multitask in a pandemic will be severely tested as they scramble to find staff for vaccination sites while maintaining testing and contact tracing.
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Health Issues Carried Weight on the Campaign Trail. What Could Biden Do in His First 100 Days?
KHN has teamed up with PolitiFact to track what becomes of President Joe Biden鈥檚 2020 campaign promises over the next four years. As he moves into the West Wing, what are his chances of making progress on health care?
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Trump鈥檚 Pardons Included Health Care Execs Behind Massive Frauds
Those walking away free were facing years in prison for crimes of 鈥渦nbounded greed.鈥
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Covid Vaccine Rollout Leaves Most Older Adults Confused Where to Get Shots
Nearly 6 in 10 people 65 and older say they don鈥檛 have enough information about how to get vaccinated, according to a new KFF poll.
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KHN鈥檚 鈥榃hat the Health?鈥: The Biden Health Agenda
President Joe Biden is wasting no time getting to work. On his first day in office, Biden signed a series of executive orders addressing the covid pandemic, promising more to come. But even with Democrats taking the barest majority in the Senate, the new president鈥檚 ambitious proposals on covid and other health issues could be in for a rough ride. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Tami Luhby of CNN and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KHN鈥檚 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Plus, for 鈥渆xtra credit,鈥 the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read too.
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Yurts, Igloos and Pop-Up Domes: How Safe Is ‘Outside’ Restaurant Dining This Winter?
All kinds of new structures are popping up to extend the outdoor dining season. Some are safer than others.
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After a Decade of Lobbying, ALS Patients Gain Faster Access to Disability Payments
In late December, then-President Donald Trump signed a law that eliminates 鈥 only for people with Lou Gehrig鈥檚 disease 鈥 the required five-month waiting period before benefits begin under the Social Security Disability Insurance program. Gaining SSDI also gives these patients immediate Medicare health coverage.
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Door to Door in Miami鈥檚 Little Havana to Build Trust in Testing, Vaccination
It’s time-consuming but worthwhile: Residents respond to messages about Covid testing and vaccines when outreach teams speak their language and make a personal connection.
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Biden Takes the Reins, Calls for a United Front Against Covid and Other Threats
On health care, President Joe Biden made it clear that combating the covid-19 pandemic will be his top priority. 鈥淲e must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation,鈥 he said. 鈥淲e will get through this together.鈥
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Advocates View Health Care as Key to Driving LGBTQ Rights Conversation
A state ban preventing local governments from enacting nondiscrimination ordinances expired Dec. 1, opening the door for a new wave of local nondiscrimination laws.
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California Is Overriding Its Limits on Nurse Workloads as Covid Surges
As covid patients flood California emergency rooms, hospitals are increasingly desperate to find enough staffers to care for them all. But some nurses worry hospitals will use the pandemic as an excuse to permanently roll back their hard-won nurse-patient ratios.
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Biden鈥檚 Covid Challenge: 100 Million Vaccinations in the First 100 Days. It Won鈥檛 Be Easy.
But keeping campaign promises regarding the nation鈥檚 covid response will go beyond stepping up the rollout of the vaccines.
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Patients Fend for Themselves to Access Highly Touted Covid Antibody Treatments
Months after President Donald Trump credited monoclonal antibody therapy for his quick recovery from covid-19, only a trickle of the product has found its way into regular people. While hundreds of thousands of vials sit unused, sick patients who might benefit from early treatment have been left on their own to vie for access.
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On Trump’s Last Full Day, Nation Records 400,000 Covid Deaths
On the day before the inauguration of a new president, the country marks a once unthinkable milestone of 400,000 deaths. The winter surge of the pandemic claimed 100,000 Americans in just five weeks.
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Are Public Health Ads Worth the Price? Not if They鈥檙e All About Fear
Public service announcements about drug use or other public health problems often fall short, public health marketing experts say, because they incite people鈥檚 worst fears rather than giving people solutions.
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鈥楢n Arm and a Leg鈥: Host Dan Weissmann Talks Price Transparency on 鈥楢xios Today鈥
Host Dan Weissmann talked about a new federal rule 鈥 a requirement for hospitals to make public the prices they negotiate with insurers 鈥 with Niala Boodhoo for the daily-news podcast 鈥淎xios Today.鈥
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Black Americans Are Getting Vaccinated at Lower Rates Than White Americans
Black Americans are receiving covid vaccines at a much lower rate than their white peers due to a combination of mistrust and access issues, leaving them behind in the mission to vaccinate the nation鈥檚 population.
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Biden Terms Vaccine Rollout 鈥楢 Dismal Failure鈥 as He Unveils Pandemic Response Plan
President-elect Joe Biden has delivered two speeches within the past 24 hours focused on his ambitious plans to address the 鈥渢win crises鈥 of the covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy.
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CVS and Walgreens Under Fire for Slow Pace of Vaccination in Nursing Homes
A federal program that sends retail pharmacists into nursing homes to vaccinate residents and workers has been hindered by bureaucratic hurdles and scheduling woes.
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Journalists Examine How Covid Polarizes Communities
KHN and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.
